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PARISALEXA performs at the Upstream Music Fest + Summit in Seattle Friday, June 1, 2018.
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Rising Seattle star Parisalexa is ready for her Capitol Hill Block Party close-up

The bright, young R&B talent rides a wave of local buzz into Seattle's quintessential summer fest.

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Giant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” which opens July 6.

Entertainment

Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for July 2018 VIEW

Ruby Barrera, 8, enjoys one of the water features at Jefferson Park Wednesday afternoon, July 19, 2017. She was there with her brother Isaiah, 5 and her mom. They live just down the street so the park is very convenient. There is a chance of rain in Seattle Thursday, but a sunny weekend is expected.

Entertainment

Summer Guide 2018: Plan your Seattle summer with this interactive events list

Summer Guide

Seattle beyond the Space Needle: Pick an itinerary and explore this summer VIEW

Books

Your guide to summer reading in Seattle this year

Books

Three new crime-fiction novels from Northwest authors

From Yakima, Sitka and World War II-era Lisbon, three Northwest writers are on the case.

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

Bend, Oregon, is home to the last Blockbuster in the U.S.

Soon the video store will be the final survivor of the once-popular chain after two Blockbuster stores in Alaska close.

Music & Nightlife

It’s a laughing good time for Ginny O’Leary, in red, and Lindsey Wonder between songs by Cosmos in front of the Main Stage at the Capitol Hill Block Party on Saturday, July 22, 2017.

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Seattle-area music-and-nightlife events July 20-26: Capitol Hill Block Party, Sheryl Crow, and more

Television

Streaming rules Emmys as Netflix snaps 17-year HBO streak VIEW

Theater

Kristin Brown (stage manager), Erin Kraft (director), and Holly Arsenault (playwright)

Seattle playwright’s ambitious new drama is a warning for the future

Fall Arts Guide

SEATTLE – Spectrum Dance Theater company members Mary Sigward, left, Alex Crozier, center, and Andrew Pontius rehearse on Thursday, August 24, 2017, in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle, Wash. (Ramon Dompor / Special to the The Seattle Times)

Seattle's state of the arts

Classical Music

Steve Bryant with the Seattle Symphony plays with the Seattle Symphony’s chamber group at the Washington Correction Center for Women in Purdy Tuesday, July 17, 2018. It’s a musician run initiative and is really meaningful for a lot of the inmates. At right is his wife Sue Jane Bryant. Steve says that prison audiences are the best audiences.

The group performs in different prisons each season.

Prison inmates reward Seattle Symphony players with standing ovation VIEW

Visual Arts

FILE — Vincent Valdez works on an eight-panel painting of a modern-day Ku Klux Klan gathering, in his studio in San Antonio, Feb. 27, 2016. The Blanton Museum of Art in Texas is wrestling with how to present Valdez’s controversial piece in 2018. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)

How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully

Pacific NW Magazine

Ron Judd explains how to outsmart your smart technology

Dance

OBIT – In this April 27, 2015 file photo choreographer Gillian Lynne delivers her speech during a press presentation to promote the musical Cats, in Paris, France. Choreographer Gillian Lynne, who worked closely for many years with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on some of his most famous works, has died in London. She was 92. Her husband, the actor Peter Land, said on Twitter that she died Sunday evening at the Princess Grace Hospital. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) XAP102 XAP102

Choreographer Gillian Lynne of ‘Cats’ fame dies at age 92.